Louis steinberger



(No Model.)

L. STEINBERGER.

BOX HANDLE FOR GANES' 0R UMBRELLAS.

No. 331,095. Patented Nov. 24, 1885,

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UNITED STATES LOUIS STEINBEBGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX-HANDLE FOR CANES OR UMBRELLAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 331,095, dated November 24, 1885.

Application filed May 8, 1885. Serial No. 164,834. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs STEINBERGER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Handles for Canes or Umbrellas, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the staffs or handles of canes or umbrellas having recesses therein to receive and hold matches, car-tickets, pins, and other small articles, and in the handles or tops of canes or umbrellas having recesses to receive independent and removable boxes, as described.

A in the accompanying drawings represents the staffs of canes and umbrellas wit-h my improvements applied to the tops or handles B thereof.

In Figures 1, 3, 5, 11, and 12 the recesses O are provided with covers D, hinged thereto, and spring-catches, E, to take into corresponding depressions formed in the sides of the handles or tops to receive them and to retain the covers closed upon their seats.

In Figs. 2, 6, and 10 the caps D are screwed into the handles, the handles having the male screw thereon and the caps the female screw thread therein, in order when united and in place to present a smooth finish thereto.

In Figs. 4, 7, 8, and 9 the handles or tops are in two parts and hinged, so as to turn down or up to expose the articles in the recesses therein.

In Figs. 1, 7, and 8 the recesses to receive and hold the articles are in the hinged part of the handle or top, instead of being in the shank thereof, and in Figs. 11 and 12 the recesses consist of independent removable boxes H, to receive and hold the articles, and which serve also as bushings to the ends of cane or umbrella staffs, to prevent them from splitting.

In Fig. 11 the upper end, a, of the independent and removable box H projects above the upper end of the staff A, over which the hinged cover or cap D closes, and which forms a shoulder or rim to retain the cap firmly in position sidewise thereon.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new and improved article of manufacture, a recessed handle permanently secured at one end to a cane, umbrella, or other article constructed substantially as herein described, in combination with an interior box, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As a new and improved article of manufacture, a recessed handle for a cane, umbrella, or other article constructed in two parts and hinged or otherwise united to form a handle, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

LOUIS STEINBERGER. 

